Professor of Piano and Jazz, University of Kentucky. Master classes and clinics in improvisation and jazz performance at Northern Kentucky University, Kentucky State University, the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, Norman Manley College for the Performing Arts, Northeast Missouri State University, New Mexico State University and Houghton College (NY)

Hammond is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council, and took first place at the 1993 Jazz-A-La-Martinique Jazz Festival, for his composition entry: "Evening Shores."